¶ Multorum disce exemplo, que facta sequaris, Que fugias; uita est nobis aliena magistra.
120.
Le ensaumple receyueȝ
De mouȝ, ke vous sacheȝ
qey fere e quey lesser;
Kar quel ke il seit,
Autri sauer vous deit
A prendre ou chastier.
¶ Ensaumple tak of mony men
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What werkes þe folewe schal;
Þe lyf of oþure goode men
Is Maistres to us alle.
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¶ Quod potes, id temptes, [[tenta, V.R.]] operis ne pondere pressus Succumbat labor, & frustra temptata relinquis.
121.
Ce ke tu poyes fere,
Dount quides a chef trere
Asaieȝ en meynte guise,
Ke tey ne tut a pres
Pur le anuy del fes
Guerper la tue aprise.
¶ Þat þou may assaye wel,
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I rede, no more, þou bere;
Ȝif þou dost, þou lest þi swik,
And ouer cark wol þe dere.
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¶ Quod nosti factum non recte, noli silere, [[haud recte factum, nolito tacere, V.R.]] Ne videare malos imitari uelle tacendo.
122.
Ce ke toun cen veit
Ouerer en-countre dreit,
Tere pas ne deies;
Ke homme ne seit quidaunt
Ke voyles enteysaunt,
En suere le maueis.
¶ Þat þou wost is euel wraþþe,
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ffor-hele þou hit nouȝt,
Þat þou suwe no wikked mon
In wille nouþer in þouht.
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¶ Iudicis auxilium sub iniqua lege rogato; Ipse etiam [MS. eniam] leges cupiunt, ut iure regantur.
